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| Agrippa | powerful deputy of Augustus, served as one of Octavian’s key military commanders |
| Augustus | first Roman emperor; led Rome's transformation from republic to empire |
| Caligula | Roman emperor; planned to appoint his horse, Incitatus, to the high office of consul |
| Claudius | Emperor wrote a pamphlet defending the republican politician and orator Cicero |
| Constantine | the first emperor to adhere to Christianity |
| Domitian | known chiefly for the reign of terror under which members of the Senate lived |
| Galba | first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors; the last to be born in first century BC |
| Hadrian | oversaw several important buildings of Venus and Roma and Hadrian's Wall |
| Livia | wife of Augustus who poisened him |
| Maecenas | friend of Augustus who was the patron of Vergil and Horace |
| Marcus Aurelius | famous for The Meditations, collection of thoughts, Stoic beliefs, and notes on his life |
| Nero | He killed his mother, persecuted Christians, and fiddled while Rome burned |
| Octavian | fought to avenge Caesar; 31 BC defeated Antony and Cleopatra at Battle of Actium |
| Tiberius | improved the civil service and restored Rome's financial condition |
| Titus | Roman emperor who completed the colosseum |
| Trajan | funded public works projects in Rome such a Trajan's Column |
| Vespasian | Roman emperor who founded the Flavian dynasty of emperors |
| Cleopatra | Egyptian queen, lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony |
| Brutus | was apart of the assaciation of Julius Caesar, "et tu, Brute?" |
| Cicero | Rome's greatest orator, verse writer, influential statesman, lawyer, and philosopher |
| Crassus | formed the First Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Pompey |
| Julius Caesar | expanded the Roman Republic through a series of battles across Europe |
| Philippi | final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate |
| Pharsalus | Battle which ended the Republican government |
| Rubicon | Julius Caesar crossed in 49 BC, precipitated the Roman Civil War |
| Cato the Younger | unwilling to live in a world led by Caesar therefore commiting suicide |
| Vercingetorix | Gallic leader of a revolt against Rome; defeated by Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars |
| Actium | Octavian won a decisive victory against Mark Antony and Cleopatra at this battle |
| Marc Antony | helped secure Caesar's rise to power; love affair with Cleopatra led to his demise |
